How do I mount an EBS root volume to a windows instance in Amazon EC2

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Published on 2011-10-25T19:26:24Z Indexed on 2013/06/25 4:23 UTC
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So basically, I created a large windows server for development, and then I created a micro windows server for production. I set up everything how I wanted it on my development server, and then i unmounted the drives, and mounted them to my micro server.

Now I'm trying to get back into my large windows development server, and I'm getting the error.

Invalid value 'i-4896ce28' for instanceId. Instance does not have a volume attached at root (/dev/sda1)

this error pops up when I try to start my large windows server. I've remounted the drives to the large development server, and I still get this message.

I'm not really sure what to do, I've read other posts and everyone is giving these almost like command line arguments and talking about other tools, and I really have no clue what any of that means, or where I even have an option to enter any commands without be logged into a specific instance.

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